Description
Our dear friends Dean and Nancy lived for many years in a sweet house with an even sweeter garden in Fairfax. I took this photo of their Gravenstein apple tree growing in their side garden. I just loved the configuration of the branches and the delicacy of the apple blossoms in full bloom. Of course, I’m also a sucker for back lighting! It seems most of the paintings I’m drawn to create contain some new artistic challenge. In this one it was white blossoms. I actually painted them first, as I had a hard time trusting that I could paint them to please me and did not want to paint the whole thing and then “ruin” it with badly painted white flowers. This is the least colorful of all the paintings I’ve done, so it’s quieter. It speaks of trust, beginnings, becoming and it is anchored by the steadfastness of the giant sycamore tree.
April 2007
